The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all.

All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.

Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God.

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend.

Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, "Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs.

Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .

Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word "glory" a meaning for me.

The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop.

We were made for God. Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love.

Rumors are the children of truth.

Monopolies are bad and deserve their reputation when things are static and the monopolies function as toll collectors... But I think they're quite positive when they're dynamic and do something new.

If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

I said that the oceans were sick but they're not going to die. There is no death possible in the oceans - there will always be life - but they're getting sicker every year.

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.

I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me.

Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.

The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages. [Lat., Vulgus amicitias utilitate probat.]

People like the way dreams have of sticking to the soul.

I'm a crumpled up piece of paper lying here, 'Cause I remember it all, all, all... too well...